Motivational Quotes

Fear

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

2.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

3.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

4.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

5.

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

6.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

7.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

8.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

9.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

10.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

11.

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

13.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

14.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

15.

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

16.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

17.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

18.

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

19.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

20.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

21.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

22.

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

23.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

24.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

25.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

26.

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

27.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

28.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

29.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

30.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

31.

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

32.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

34.

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

35.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

36.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

37.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

38.

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison